Posts Tagged ‘Chinese New Year’

The Chinese New Year is fast approaching, and millions of girls will be schlepping home from their jobs in the city to their families in the countryside. According to the Globe and Mail, “Because so...
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It’s every parent’s nightmare. The toddler, piqued that I won’t let her play with the house keys, snatches them from my handbag and casts them in the gutter, narrowly missing a drain. Without e...
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As I type, what sounds like the rasp of automatic gunfire is coming from the streets of Beijing, but fear not, the Middle East contagion hasn’t spread to China quite yet: it’s just the start of th...
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The country is staggering towards insolvency. Our border controls have been dismantled. We can’t even allocate Olympic tickets without the say-so of our masters in Brussels – and what are the top ...
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